Hempstead News

The reason the medical professionals who treated the victim of a motorcycle crash near Jamaica Beach Friday were shocked to hear of his death was because of the minor nature of his injury, and this morning it was learned that 39-year old Roy Ener of Sheppard, Texas is alive after all.

The parents of a Prairie View A&M University student who died last month have filed a lawsuit alleging that the death was the result of a brutal, reckless fraternity hazing.

A group of students from Prairie View A&M University will be brought before a campus review board next week to determine whether any conduct codes were violated during an exercise session for prospective fraternity members that ended in one student's death.

On campuses across the country, for better than a century, it's been a well understood, if not well liked fact - some types of membership demand both a pledge and a price.

The father of a young man who died while allegedly pledging for a school fraternity says he noticed his son was beaten in the week leading up to his death.

Barry and Peggy Hardy of College Station, Texas, are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jennifer Lee, to Nikolas Boyd, son of Sherry Boyd of Wellborn, Texas, and Steve and Charli Boyd of Hempstead, Texas.

How many times have you wondered why the railroad tracks going into and out of Houston aren't being used for commuter trains? Or why so many former tracks have been abandoned without being used as transportation corridors? The answers to both questions are complex and rooted in the history of privately owned railroads and the development of the ...

A Hempstead police officer has returned to work after he was attacked while leaving a library, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.

Learn more about the plans TRAINS OF THOUGHT The three commuter rail concepts under consideration: U.S. 290 corridor, Hempstead-Houston Advocates argue that the route would relieve congestion during 290's future expansion, and could win federal favor because it eventually could extend to Austin and become part of a long-envisioned high-speed train ...

Believe it or not, trolling the Houston Health Department website for tidbits about dirty floors, missing hand-washing signs and spoiled animal parts is not always an invigorating activity.

Being back in Texas gives Steve Williams a feeling of comfort he hasn't enjoyed in a long time.

Geophysical specialist Bill Pierson, front, uses a magnetometer to survey the site of Texas' largest plantation, Bernardo.

Israel Paul Martinez, 27, is accused of shooting two men during an apparent roadside cocaine deal about 8:15 p.m. Thursday near the junction of FM 1488 and U.S. 290.

A suspect wanted on attempted murder charges in Waller County turned himself in to authorities overnight Tuesday.

Waller County authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a fugitive they say is armed and extremely dangerous .

'This is where plantation history began in Texas,' one historian said of the Bernardo site.

Authorities were searching Friday for a gunman who authorities suspect shot two men after a roadside drug deal went bad in the Hempstead area.

A manhunt was under way Friday morning in Waller County after deputies say a hitchhiker attacked four good Samaritans.

Two former public officials in Waller County have been sentenced to federal prison as part of an ongoing investigation.

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